Trump Loaded Up on ABT Stock Before His DOJ Dropped Criminal Probe
The New Octopus -- The Nightmare by Mark Bryan.
Trump Loaded Up on Abbott Laboratories Stock Before His DOJ Dropped Criminal Probe
Abbott, which donated $500,000 to the president’s inaugural fund, faced an investigation stemming from alleged deadly contamination at one of its baby formula plants in Michigan.
by Jake Johnson
Common Dreams, July 02, 2026
US President Donald Trump last year purchased hundreds of thousands of dollars of Abbott Laboratories stock before his Justice Department dropped a years-long criminal investigation into the company, which was accused of misconduct after infant hospitalizations and deaths were linked to one of its baby formula factories.
The stock purchases were revealed in the president’s annual financial disclosure report, which spans 927 pages and shows thousands of trades valued at over $1 billion. Trump’s first purchase of Abbott stock last year was made in late September, and the president bought around $500,000 worth of shares in total in 2025, according to the nonprofit media organization More Perfect Union.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that “top decision makers” at the Department of Justice shut down the criminal investigation into Abbott—which donated $500,000 to Trump’s inaugural fund—even though “some prosecutors believed they had evidence to criminally charge the company under a law they have used to pursue other businesses for allegedly selling contaminated foods.”
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The Food and Drug Administration received reports of at least nine infant deaths linked to baby formula produced at Abbott’s Sturgis plant, which the company temporarily shut down amid fears of dangerous contamination. The Justice Department launched its investigation into Abbott, the largest infant formula manufacturer in the US, in 2023, under the administration of former President Joe Biden.
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-abbott-laboratories
Traitor may be a stupid turd, but he sure knows how to transform "public service" into a self-service all you can grift smorgasbord of crime.
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Mainly for the exposure. If accurate this a really bad one for Trump because it involves babies dying. If there's one thing that pretty much everyone agrees with, it's that when giant corporations cause the death of infants due to greed and/or negligence, it pisses people off.
But also for more personal reasons insofar as I want to share it widely on social media, however, I've been burned by putting too much trust in a Common Dreams-sourced story. Don't get me wrong, I like them, but won't trumpet out their reporting unless I get confirmation from larger sources 
My own personal comfort invertebrate is the Cuttlefish.
.webp
Background for those new to the subject:
Experiment reveals cuttlefish have a 'sophisticated brain'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/51392291
No backbone, but plenty of computing power and the ability to camouflage one's self into the background.
...and if it's not a coincidence, then it's an "unofficial act" that comes with presumed immunity thanks to the SCROTUS (Supreme Court Republicans Of The United States), see?
